Johnny Mnemonic

Screen Media Ventures | Release Date: May 26, 1995

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36	METASCORE Generally unfavorable reviews based on 25 Critic Reviews

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John Hartl

The movie is a series of ostentatious effects, without much sense of narrative momentum or rhythmic pacing, and it leaves you feeling like you've landed on a treadmill. [26 May 1995, p.E3]

Chris Kridler

The gleefully campy moments will earn Johnny Mnemonic cult status. Part of the movie's problem, though, is that it can't decide if it's a cautionary tale or a satire, and it falls apart when it tries to do both. [27 May 1995]

Jay Boyar

Longo and Gibson have so little interest in the personalities of the characters that the actors seem like stand-ins for computer-generated images. [27 May 1995, p.A2]

Susan Clotfelter

All in all, it's better than your average boy-meets-girl techno-thriller - but only just. [30 May 1995, p.5D]

Roger Ebert

Johnny Mnemonic is one of the great goofy gestures of recent cinema, a movie that doesn't deserve one nanosecond of serious analysis but has a kind of idiotic grandeur that makes you almost forgive it. Read full review

Scott Rosenberg

A somewhat-smarter-than-average science-fiction flick. Read full review

TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not Credited)

Keanu Reeves plays a "courier" with a lot of top-secret data stashed in his brain; it's clearly interfering with his minimal acting capabilities, causing several moments of unintentional (but welcome) humor. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

Offhand, I can’t think of an actor who could use a brain implant more. The trouble isn’t that Reeves talks like a surfer dude; it’s that he tries so hard not to talk like a surfer dude. Read full review